Printing Vintage Labels

I don't know if this is the correct forum to post this; feel free to re-direct it if so.

An interesting problem has come up that maybe somebody here can help with since my computer skills are limited. One of my new useless hobbies is designing and printing vintage Appliance labels like the one pictured below. I've been very fortunate to find a company that sells metallic inkjet label paper so I can really mimic some of the old stickers that had silver and gold backing on them. A serious glitch that I failed to anticipate is the WHITE areas of the label that, ordinarily, would be represented by the white computer paper or tints made from small amounts of color superimposed on that white background.

Do any of you know of an inkjet (or other) printer that sprays white ink along with the black, cyan, magenta and yellow? Or are there special inkjet ink packs that include white or maybe even substitute it for one of the colors? Seems like this wouldn't be such a big deal although in my 56 years I've come to learn that most things that I want are either discontinued, no longer made, out of stock or a ridiculously expensive special order. Any help will be appreciated.


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Post# 697257 8/18/2013 at 09:05 (3,902 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes I don't know if this is the correct forum to post this; feel free to re-direct it if so. An interesting problem has come up that maybe somebody here can help with since my computer skills are limited. One of my new useless hobbies is designing and printing vintage Appliance labels like the one pictured below. I've been very fortunate to find a company that sells metallic inkjet label paper so I can really mimic some of the old stickers that had silver and gold backing on them. A serious glitch that I failed to anticipate is the WHITE areas of the label that, ordinarily, would be represented by the white computer paper or tints made from small amounts of color superimposed on that white background. Do any of you know of an inkjet (or other) printer that sprays white ink along with the black, cyan, magenta and yellow? Or are there special inkjet ink packs that include white or maybe even substitute it for one of the colors? Seems like this wouldn't be such a big deal although in my 56 years I've come to learn that most things that I want are either discontinued, no longer made, out of stock or a ridiculously expensive special order. Any help will be appreciated.

Post# 697304 , Reply# 1 8/18/2013 at 15:58 (3,901 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)
Checkrate/Likes *i'm not sure* i understand, are you trying to make decals where the white would be transparent?

Post# 697322 , Reply# 2 8/18/2013 at 18:08 (3,901 days old) by imperial70 (MA USA)
Checkrate/Likes Did you google "white ink for inkjet printers?" It seems there may be some white ink for printers. See link below that shows search results. www.google.com/searchQUES... hope this helps...

Post# 697337 , Reply# 3 8/18/2013 at 20:00 (3,901 days old) by retropia ()
Checkrate/Likes I don't know of any home-use or small-office-use printer that does white ink. There was, many years ago, a gold-foil process which you would use with a laser printer. So, in the artwork sample you provided above, you would do your colored printing on a white stock, and then run the gold-foil through as the final printing. I don't know if that item is still available. Another option is to check with specialty printing places like CafePress or Zazzle. They have a system for use in printing t-shirts where they can print white ink in a design, on a dark-colored t-shirt (for example) which is then the backing for a colored ink to go on top of the white ink. That is the only way for them to do a colored design on a dark shirt. I'm not sure if they could use that same process to print on gold foil, but it might work. With CafePress or Zazzle, you can order one item at a time, so there is no expensive minimum quantity you must order.